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    Myra Breckinridge (1970)

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    At its core, Michael Sarne’s film is essentially a $5 million homoerotic gag, though it’s hard to say whether the joke was at the expense of Gore Vidal (who wrote the source novel), backers 20th Century Fox, or the audience.

    myrabreckinridge0Courtesy of a sex change performed by Dr John Carradine, Myron Breckinridge (Rex Reed) has transformed into Myra Breckinridge (Raquel Welch) and decided, for no particular reason, to teach “Cinema Love Making” at a phoney dramatic school run by his/her uncle.

    Also around, for equally unfathomable reasons, is Mae West, who sings Hard To Handle and talks about establishing “a boy bank where credit is always good”.

    Over the course of 94 agonising minutes, Welch beds Farrah Fawcett and straps on a dildo to sodomise one male lover, during which she comments, “My goal is the destruction of the last vestigial traces of traditional manhood from the race”.

    Leticia Van Allen
    Mae West
    Buck Loner
    John Huston
    Myra Breckinridge
    Raquel Welch
    Mary Ann
    Farrah Fawcett
    Myron Breckinridge
    Rex Reed
    Doctor
    John Carradine
    Dr Randolph Spencer Montag
    Roger C. Carmel
    Rusty
    Roger Herren
    Charlie Flager Jr.
    George Furth
    Charlie Flager Sr
    Robert P. Lieb
    Irving Amadeus
    Calvin Lockhart
    Coyote Bill
    Andy Devine
    Kid Barlow
    Grady Sutton
    Chance
    Skip Ward
    Bobby Dean Loner
    Kathleen Freeman
    Tex
    B.S. Pully
    Jeff
    Buck Kartalian
    Vince
    Monte Landis

    Director
    Mike Sarne

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